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American television - Wikipedia. The following is a list of events affecting American television in 2. Events listed include television show debuts, finales, and cancellations; channel launches, closures, and rebrandings; stations changing or adding their network affiliations; and information about changes of ownership of channels or stations, controversies and carriage disputes. January[edit]Date. Event. 1Time Warner Cable President/COO Robert Marcus becomes the company's new CEO, succeeding the retiring Glenn Britt.[1]One year to the day after being dropped from Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks systems, Ovation returns to the two providers, the result of Ovation's announced commitment to provide more original programming.[2]Home shopping network Shop. NBC rebrands as Shop. HQ.[3]Foxowned- and- operated station.

WJZY/Charlotte, North Carolina, launches its news department with the debut of an hour- long 1. The program soft- launched on December 1. WJZY's news share agreement with CBS affiliate WBTV to produce its primetime newscast ended.[4][5][6]Sinclair- controlled ABC affiliate WHAM- TV/Rochester begins producing morning and 1.

Fox- affiliated sister station WUHF. The setup comes after the termination of an eight- year shared services agreement at the end of 2. Nexstar- owned WROC- TV, which saw WROC produce news content for WUHF. Sinclair's duopoly partner, Deerfield Media, acquired WHAM- TV from Newport Television in December 2.

Hearst Corporation announces that David Barrett, CEO of its television station division, has ceded day- to- day oversight to the division's President/COO, Jordan Wertleib. Barrett remains on Hearst's board of trustees.[8]5.

Alan Young, Actor: Mister Ed. Alan Young was born in Northern England in 1919, but his Scots father moved the family to Edinburgh, Scotland, when Young was a toddler.

The fourth- season premiere of Downton Abbey makes history for PBS, with more than 1. ABC begins limiting online access to day- after streaming of its series' new episodes to customers of participating cable providers, Hulu Plus, i. Tunes, and Amazon Video and restricting free access to recent episodes on its website and streaming app to other users eight days after an episode's original airdate.[1.

Similar streaming restrictions are also put in place by sister cable channel ABC Family, which launched its "Watch ABC Family" authenticated streaming service on that same day.[1. Doctor Television Channel (also known as Dr. TV), a new network dedicated to healthy- lifestyle programming, officially launches on several low- power television stations and on Roku.[1. One year after adding the omg! Yahoo!'s similarly titled website), the CBS- syndicated entertainment/gossip program omg! Insider sees its title revert to just The Insider in line with omg!'s rebranding as Yahoo!

Celebrity; the two entities continue to promote and share each other's content.[1. CBS Sports. NFL analyst Dan Dierdorf calls his final game, an AFC Divisional Playoff game between the Indianapolis Colts and New England Patriots, ending a three- decade career as an analyst spent with CBS and ABC's Monday Night Football.[1.

NBC's telecast of the 7. Golden Globe Awards is watched by an estimated 2. A scene in this evening's episode of How I Met Your Mother features members of the all- white main cast in yellow face and depicting Asian stereotypes and accents. It proves to be a controversial scene, and prompts series creator/producer Carter Bays to apologize on Twitter on January 1.

Kung fu movies they grew up on.[1. Direc. TV removes The Weather Channel due to an unresolved carriage dispute, with the carrier filling the void with a simulcast of digital broadcast network Weather.

Nation TV.[1. 7] The dispute runs until April 8, when Direc. TV and The Weather Channel reach a new carriage deal. The channel, in a trade- off to regain carriage, agrees to pare down its weekday reality content and devote more of its daytime schedule to forecasts and weather reportage.[1. On Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Captain Donald Cragen (Dann Florek) retires from the NYPD, leaving Detective/Sergeant Olivia Benson (Mariska Hargitay) as the only remaining character who has appeared on the series for its entire fifteen- season run.[1.

Sasheer Zamata joins the cast of Saturday Night Live, becoming the show's first black female cast member in six years.[2. Zamata's hiring, along with the addition of two other black women to its writing staff (Leslie Jones and La. Kendra Tookes),[2. SNL had received criticism in 2. African- American women among its cast.[2. NBC airs the 2. 01. NFL Pro Bowl, likely the last Pro Bowl game to air on broadcast television for the next few years.

ESPN will take over exclusive rights to the Pro Bowl and Monday Night Football from 2. The 5. 6th Annual Grammy Awards airs on CBS. It is the first time the ceremony has been held in January (in part to avoid scheduling conflicts with the 2. Winter Olympics in February)[2. Daft Punk, Pharrell Williams, Lorde. Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor later blasted the producers and CBS on Twitter for cutting off the band's closing performance featuring Queens of the Stone Age, Dave Grohl and Lindsey Buckingham.[2. How I Met Your Mother marks its 2.

Ted Mosby's point of view, it is instead told from the perspective of "The Mother" (Cristin Milioti), whose eight years prior to meeting Ted are recalled in a story complete with special opening credits.[2. NBC Sports hires Lindsey Vonn as their correspondent for the network's coverage of the 2. Winter Games and as a contributor on Today during its broadcast from Sochi. The skier was supposed to compete in the events, but a series of injuries resulted in Vonn withdrawing from the Games earlier this month.[2. For the first time ever, four different televised Republican responses followed the State of the Union Address by Democratic President Barack Obama.[2. Moments after the State of the Union Address was completed, United States Congressman. Michael Grimm (R- New York's 1.

NY1 reporter Michael Scotto by attacking him and telling Scotto that he'll throw him off the balcony of the United States Capitol building after Scotto approached the Tea Party- backed representative to ask about a continuing federal investigation into his campaign fund- raising while the cameras were still rolling (Grimm would later be indicted in April).[2. Grimm later apologized to his district and to NY1 for his actions.[3. During a live remote from the College of Charleston, a man lunges at The Weather Channel meteorologist Jim Cantore, who fends off the attacker with a knee to the groin and finishes his report.[3. For the first time in 1. Bob Saget, John Stamos and Dave Coulier reprise their Full House roles and appear on Late Night to give Jimmy Fallon a sappy, heartfelt speech to calm his anxiety about hosting The Tonight Show.[3. February[edit]Date.

Event. 2The Seattle Seahawks defeat the Denver Broncos 4. Super Bowl XLVIII, the franchise's first championship, an event watched by 1. It is the fourth time since 2.

NFL'schampionship game sets the all- time total viewership record.[3. Get. TV commences programming. The Sony Pictures Entertainment- owned digital network, which primarily airs feature films from Sony's film library, launches in 2. Univision Communications- owned stations.[3. In the ramp- up of WGN America's rebranding as a general cable network rather than a superstation, WGN America drops the 9 p. Watch It`S Kind Of A Funny Story Tube Free on this page.

Central Time) nightly newscast of WGN- TV/Chicago as well as the station's broadcast of Illinois Lottery drawings, including the multi- state Mega Millions and Powerball drawings. Likely due to contractual issues, the channel now broadcasts the 4 a.

Central Time) hour of the WGN Morning News on weekdays as a replacement.[3. The National Football League awards its Thursday Night Football package to CBS, which will produce 1. Thursday and Saturday night games in 2. Eight early- season games will air on CBS and be simulcast on NFL Network (which has carried the package since 2. NFLN will air eight late- season games exclusively.